NY State Trooper Winston Ivelaw Martindale, Jr.’s Stetson rests atop his coffin during his burial at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Goshen, NY on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Martindale is the Trooper assigned to Troop F in Middletown who died unexpectedly on July 24th. from injuries he sustained after responding to a small plane crash in 2011. He served in the U.S. Army for 18 years and was deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a NY State Trooper for 7 years. © CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
An Orange County cemetery worker removes burial hardware at the grave site of New York State Trooper Winston Ivelaw Martindale, Jr. after his burial at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Goshen, NY on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Martindale is the Trooper assigned to Troop F in Middletown who died unexpectedly on July 24th. from injuries he sustained after responding to a small plane crash in 2011. He served in the U.S. Army for 18 years and was deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a NY State Trooper for 7 years. © CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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